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Rastkovic · Post by **Rastkovic** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:21 am

DAW of course, I've always been a software guy....

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:27 am

First DAW was Metro and a multitrack audio recording program that linked to it… I can’t even remember the name… (Metro does audio and MIDI now, full DAW), Later moved to Studio Vision Pro, but everything else was hardware until the mid 00s, and by then I was using Digital Performer. Software wasn’t really up to the task of replacing my hardware synths, as far as I could tell. The mid 00s was when I thought they really started getting good. My first VSTi was Absynth, but I didn’t do much with it for a while. I think the second VSTi I purchased was Zebra 2. I actually went all software for a time, but now I find that some things are still better in hardware.

vata44 · Post by **vata44** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:30 am

DAW first...

Impulse Tracker, then Jeskola Buzz, and now Reaper.

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:41 am

i did pick up radio on a massive and broken guitar amp in 2001

Rastkovic · Post by **Rastkovic** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:43 am

Impulse Tracker, Acid Pro, Cakewalk Sonar, Logic, Ableton Live

In exactly this order.

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:43 am

DAW first for me
hardware synths came later in 3 of it
-Cheetah MS6
-Nord G2
-Access Virus

rod_zero · Post by **rod_zero** » Mon Feb 14, 2022 7:03 am

DAW first, I was 22 when I met cubase in 2006, then switched to live in 2009.

I got my first synth in 2011, a Machinedrum. Now in 2022 I am getting rid of my hardware, never found a way to have a hybrid set up that works for me.

pbognar · Post by **pbognar** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 7:00 pm

1982 - A Sequential Circuits Pro One (with a built-in step sequencer)
1983 - Roland JX-3P (my first MIDI keyboard)
1986 - Texture PC based MIDI sequencer

Of course, in the modern era, most people would probably start with GarageBand and then discover hardware synths sometime after.

sQeetz · Post by **sQeetz** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 8:32 pm

1990...ish... tried first with a KAWAI sequencer but settled for an Amiga 500 with MIDI interface - MED (we had no OctaMED at the time) - some really expensive keyboard with a lot of quite impressive sounds a friend had from his dad who played in a cover band.
1991 Amiga 500 Protracker with a sample module
1993 Amiga 500 + MIDI - OctaMED this time - AKAI S01
1997 Amiga 600 + MIDI - AKAI CD3000XL + sample module only
2001...ish AMD Athlon based PC and Fruity Loops. From there on only computers + sound cards + MIDI controllers

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 8:49 pm

i wish someone would hurry up and make the obvious joke reply before i get in shit for it

sQeetz · Post by **sQeetz** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:16 pm

vurt wrote: Tue Feb 15, 2022 8:49 pm i wish someone would hurry up and make the obvious joke reply before i get in shit for it

If it's about making it look like a curriculum, to my defense: I just saw the format of previous posts and went for it....

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:21 pm

sQeetz wrote: Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:16 pm
vurt wrote: Tue Feb 15, 2022 8:49 pm i wish someone would hurry up and make the obvious joke reply before i get in shit for it
If it's about making it look like a curriculum, to my defense: I just saw the format of previous posts and went for it....

no, sorry, it's the thread title, it's begs for an answer!!!
and i know, if someone doesn't i will

sQeetz · Post by **sQeetz** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:32 pm

uh-huh....

Erisian · Post by **Erisian** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:33 pm

The DAW was a bit premature to be honest. The hardware lasted much longer.

(How's that vurt?)

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:35 pm

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What Came First For You ? The DAW or The Hardware Synth ?

What Came First For You ? The DAW or The Hardware Synth ?